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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 22 – The Tree and the River of Life
ever, would it not then say to us, Come, with

a persuasion which no power could resist?

Who of us, in view of this, could turn away, and

say, I have no desire for an inheritance there?

But though we cannot now look upon that city,

the unfailing word of God has promised it, and

that is sufficient to inspire us with implicit and

living faith; and through the channel of that

faith it says to us, Come. Come, if you would

inherit mansions where sickness, sorrow,

pain, and death can never enter; if you would

have a right to the tree of life, and pluck its

immortal fruit, and eat and live; if you would

drink of the water of the river of life, that flows

from the throne of God, clear as crystal. Come,

if you would obtain through those glittering

gates of pearl an abundant entrance into the

eternal city; if you would walk its streets of